Lead the Future of Defense Navigation as our Operations Manager!
Are you ready to spearhead operational excellence for the market leader in high-performance military GPS navigation? Trimble Military and Advanced Systems (TMAS) is seeking a strategic leader to optimize our manufacturing operations. In this role, you will bridge cutting-edge innovation with mission-critical delivery, ensuring our technology reaches over 70 global aviation and maritime platforms while maintaining the highest standards of quality and regulatory compliance.
About Us
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
Trimble Military and Advanced Systems (TMAS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trimble, is the premier provider of modernized airborne and maritime GPS receivers. We design and deliver the most advanced military receivers on the market, backing critical defense operations worldwide with unmatched precision and reliability.
What Makes This Role Great
As Operations Manager, you will hold a pivotal leadership seat directly influencing the production of modernized GPS receivers essential to global security. You will shape operational strategy across TMAS, driving Lean and Six Sigma transformations while overseeing an end-to-end operational framework—spanning planning, procurement, production, order administration, warehousing, revenue execution, and service. You will be supported by a highly experienced, dedicated team ready to help execute your vision and scale our supply chain for U.S. and international defense partners.
Key Exciting Responsibilities
- Drive Operational Execution: Lead production, warehousing, and facilities management to achieve growth targets.
- Cultivate a Business-Owner Mindset: Champion profitability and long-term sustainable growth, aligning daily operational execution directly with key revenue and financial objectives.
- Spearhead Continuous Improvement: Implement Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to maximize manufacturing efficiency, quality, and throughput capacity.
- Build a Compliant Supply Chain: Secure a resilient supply network by managing strategic vendor partnerships and complex logistics in accordance with ITAR and export regulations.
- Establish Pragmatic Quality Standards: Champion a culture of excellence using AS9100 and ISO 9001 as foundational guidelines—ensuring regulatory compliance while keeping business efficiency front and center.
- Develop High-Performing Teams: Mentor and empower a cross-functional operations team within a safe, inclusive, and entrepreneurial workplace culture.
Essential Skills & Experience
- 8+ Years of Progressive Leadership: Proven track record managing operations budgets, revenue targets, purchasing, supply chain, inventory, shipping, and warehousing in a tech hardware manufacturing environment.
- Quality Management Standards: Hands-on experience managing and navigating AS9100 or ISO 9001 certified environments.
- Team Building & Talent Development: Demonstrated leadership capabilities in hiring, training, and inspiring cross-functional operational teams.
- Security Requirements: Active U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
Bonus Points For
- Master’s degree or MBA in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Operations Management.
- Professional certification in Six Sigma (Green Belt or higher) or Lean Manufacturing.
- Direct experience in defense, aerospace, or similarly highly regulated technology sectors.
- Practical working knowledge of federal contracting standards and export compliance, including ITAR, DFARS, and DCMA regulations.
Logistics
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA - (In Office)
- Travel Requirement: 10%
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible candidates
Why You'll Love Working With Us At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.
You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.
Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.
Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."
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Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
Hiring Range
$136,400.00–$187,500.00
Pay Rate Type
Salary
Bonus Eligible?
Yes
Commission Eligible?
No
Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.
Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”
Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.
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